Areas of Practice

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Commercial and Common Law 

Members of Cloisters appear in commercial and common law litigation at all levels including the House of Lords, Privy Council and European Court of Justice. Cloisters work includes:

  • Actions against the police
  • Cases under the Financial Services Act
  • Cases under the Banking Act
  • Civil disputes about corporate affairs
  • Commercial criminal law
  • Company director disqualifications
  • Consumer law
  • Electoral fraud
  • Freezing and other injunctions
  • General contract disputes
  • Injunctions
  • Local government
  • Professional negligence
 

Barristers


Jacques Algazy
Robin Allen QC
Thomas Brown
Rachel Chambers
Tom Coghlin
Rachel Crasnow
Jonathan Crystal
Arthur Davidson QC
Olivia-Faith Dobbie
Philip Engelman
Paul Epstein QC
Jason Galbraith-Marten
Caspar Glyn
Claire McCann
John Mehrzad
Professor Alan Neal
Adam Ohringer
Declan O'Dempsey
Lisa Sullivan
Edmund Williams

Cases

Gur v. Avrupa - April 2008
Meisels v. Lichtman - March 2008
Anglos v. Kent and Brooks - May 2007
Dearlove v. Combs - January 2007
Dawnay Day v MacDiarmid et al - November 2006
Lady Colin Campbell v Safra [2006] - March 2006
Hickman v Blake Lapthorn and David Fisher - December 2005
Hickman v Blake Lapthorn - December 2005
Wood v Webb - October 2005
R. v Smith - July 2005
R. v Hipwell - July 2005
Pearson & Baldwin v LB Merton - July 2005
R. v Rush - July 2005
TBL Realisations plc (in administration) v Awada and others - March 2004
Tigana v Decoro - February 2003
Paragon Finance v Noueiri - September 2001
R. v Andrews - April 2001
Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA v. Munawar Ali, Sultana Runi Khan and Others - March 2001
Darker & ors v Chief Constable of the West Midlands - July 2000
Sinclair v British Telecommunications plc - January 2000
R v Jackson - December 1998